Episode 58 is HERE, with the incredibly awesome and prolific board (and video) game designer Tim Fowers! This was, in many ways, a model episode of the Clockwork Game Design Podcast, because we hit so many different (but relevant) topics involving the process of game design. Yay! Here’s a few key items: Conventions/conferences – which […]
Hi everyone! Here is episode 57 of the Clockwork Game Design Podcast, where I give a bunch of updates on the games I’m devvin’. I talk a bunch about progress on both my Gem Wizards games and many of the game design struggles, particularly with the card game, which I’m deep in the design-weeds and
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I have long considered execution to be basically a form of randomness, similar to dice rolls or card draws. I have also long recognized that not everyone agrees with me, and some people find the idea deeply offensive. I can understand both of these responses, but today I would like to address them directly and
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Hi everyone! I wanted to write up a little short thing about Antstronauts, a new game by Keith & Snake Games. I got the idea for Antstronauts after playing BrainGoodGames‘ Solar Settlers, and it started as kind of a variant of that game, but now it’s pretty darn different. Basically you have a Queen ant
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I’m working on two games that I really want to tell everyone about! They both use a theme that I’ve been working on for awhile which I’m calling Gem Wizards. More on the theme BELOW – for now, let’s get to the games. But before I do, first I want to just make a general
GEM WIZARDS: a new generation of Keith Burgun Games! Read More »
Today I talked to Dan Cook about competitive games, social games, and our objectives behind making games in the first place. This was one of my favorite conversations with one of my favorite game design theorists out there. His blog, Lost Garden, was literally THE blog (along with maybe some stuff from Anna Anthropy) that
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